Studio Gang wraps Chicago performing arts centre in glass and wooden battens
Jeanne Gang's firm Studio Gang has completed a theatre that features an elevated glass box wrapped in bands of cedar. More
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Álvaro Siza completes red brick theatre near Barcelona
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has built a red brick theatre in Llinars del Vallès, a village outside Barcelona (+ slideshow). More
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Flanagan Lawrence to update Polish summer theatre with new inflatable roof
London studio Flanagan Lawrence has won a competition to refurbish an outdoor theatre in Szczecin, Poland, with plans to add an arched roof made from inflatable panels (+ slideshow). More
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Glazed theatre by van Dongen-Koschuch occupies former dockland buildings
Dutch firm van Dongen-Koschuch has converted an old maritime building in the Netherlands into a theatre with a glass auditorium (+ slideshow). More
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Rick Mather Architects refurbishes and expands London's Lyric Hammersmith theatre
London office Rick Mather Architects has completed an extension to the city's Lyric Hammersmith theatre, adding a new wing that houses facilities including studios for film, dance and theatre (+ slideshow). More
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SOM recasts old San Francisco movie house for new role as a nonprofit theatre
SOM's San Francisco office has transformed an abandoned cinema into a multipurpose performance and community venue for the American Conservatory Theater, a prominent arts organisation in the Bay Area (+ slideshow). More
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Old English church transformed into a theatre by Foster Wilson Architects
Foster Wilson Architects has converted a heritage-listed church in Bedford, England, into a theatre with a new curved timber and glass foyer bar (+ slideshow). More
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UNStudio selected by residents of Den Bosch to design new city theatre
UNStudio has been selected to design the new theatre for Den Bosch, the Netherlands, after winning a city-wide public vote (+ slideshow). More
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Haworth Tompkins completes renovation of Denys Lasdun's National Theatre
London studio Haworth Tompkins has completed its £80 million refurbishment of Brutalist icon the National Theatre, including the addition of an all-new aluminium-clad theatre production facility (+ slideshow). More
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TAAT's interactive theatre set is designed to "tickle a higher sense of spatial awareness"
This labyrinthian theatre set of slatted and solid timber is designed to create an environment for two strangers to act out an improvised performance (+ slideshow). More
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Liverpool Everyman Theatre by Haworth Tompkins wins Stirling Prize 2014
News: Haworth Tompkins' new home for the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, featuring a curved auditorium built from 25,000 reclaimed bricks, is the 2014 winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize for the biggest contribution to British architecture this year. More
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ALA's Kuopio City Theatre extension features a crinkled facade
Crinkled fibre-cement panels clad the facade of this theatre extension by Finnish studio ALA Architects in the city of Kuopio, complementing the concrete exterior of the original 1960s building (+ slideshow). More
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UNStudio's Theatre de Stoep improves its acoustics with a moving auditorium ceiling
UNStudio has completed a theatre in the Dutch town of Spijkenisse, featuring a spotty facade that glows purple at night and an auditorium with a ceiling that moves to improve acoustics (+ slideshow). More
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Brutalist buildings: National Theatre, London by Denys Lasdun
Brutalism: Denys Lasdun's National Theatre – one of London's best-known and most divisive Brutalist buildings – is a layered concrete landscape that Prince Charles once described as being like "a nuclear power station". More
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Assemble's latest pop-up theatre combines Tudor design with stadium architecture
This pop-up wooden theatre in Southampton, England, was designed by London architecture collective Assemble to look like a cross between a performance venue and a football stadium (+ slideshow). More
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Haworth Tompkins overhauls Powell & Moya's brutalist Chichester theatre
The rough concrete structure of Powell & Moya's revered Chichester Festival Theatre in the south of England has been given a major facelift by London studio Haworth Tompkins (+ slideshow). More
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Studio Octopi sets the scene for Greek tragedies with revived school amphitheatre
Greek tragedies will be staged every three years at this traditional amphitheatre that Studio Octopi has restored on the grounds of a college in the south of England (+ slideshow). More
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Origin Architect transforms Beijing factory into a theatre complex
A huge folding wall lifts up to reveal the contents of a weathered steel auditorium at this abandoned printing factory in Beijing, which Chinese studio Origin Architect has converted into a theatre complex (+ slideshow). More
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Haworth Tompkins' Liverpool Everyman Theatre built with old and new bricks
Behind the brickwork exterior of the new Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, England, architecture studio Haworth Tompkins designed a curved auditorium built from 25,000 reclaimed bricks (+ slideshow). More
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Schmidt Hammer Lassen wins competition for Danish theatre complex
News: Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won a competition to design a theatre and cultural centre in Hjørring, Denmark, with plans for a series of buildings clad in Corten steel (+ slideshow). More
